14th annual Denver Restaurant Week is coming

The 14th annual Denver Restaurant Week, presented by Lexus, will take place February 23 – March 4, 2018, maintaining the popular 10-day, two-weekend timeframe that began in 2015.

06.10.2017 11:37 |
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14th annual Denver Restaurant Week

More than 250 restaurants participated in 2017, making Denver Restaurant Week one of the largest and most popular restaurant weeks in the country. Registration for next year’s interested restaurants will begin in November 2017, and menus for diners will be posted on DenverRestaurantWeek.com in January 2018.

In 2017, the brand new, tiered pricing structure allowed Denver Restaurant Week to continue to focus on multi-course meals, great deals for diners and a well-rounded representation of Denver’s ever-changing, ever-expanding food scene.

Much like Denver’s restaurant scene in general, Denver Restaurant Week has evolved over the past several years. Now, with the various pricing options, two full weekends and a full week, it has become true representation of the emerging hotspots, long-time favorites and everything in between throughout Denver’s diverse neighborhoods and across the entire metro area

“Denver is recognized both domestically and around the world for our innovative cuisine and chefs,” says Richard Scharf, president and CEO of VISIT DENVER, The Convention & Visitors Bureau. “Denver Restaurant Week was originally designed as a celebration of the city’s culinary scene. Heading in to 2018, there has been profound growth in Denver in terms of new restaurants, thought leadership and accolades, and Denver Restaurant Week will once again highlight the city’s continually evolving and always creative food and beverage scene.”

More than 220 restaurants opened in Denver in 2016, and two Denver chefs were semifinalists for the prestigious 2017 James Beard Awards. Denver has seen explosive growth in dining options, with new collaborative local marketplaces, chef-driven restaurants, brew-houses and hyper-local fine dining springing up across the city’s neighborhoods; and renowned culinary guide, Zagat, named Denver the third “Hottest Food City” in late-2016. In July, The Mile High City hosted the first-ever U.S. Slow Food Nations, an offshoot of the renowned Terra Madre event in Turin Italy; and later this year Denver and Colorado will take the national stage as the host of Season 15 of renowned culinary show, “Top Chef.”